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Blood Meridian was the first McCarthy book I read back in Sophmore year of highschool. It was pretty good.

>> No.23496252

>>23496233
nice blog anon

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>>23496233
that's nice. this is probably the first /lit/ rec I read in highschool.

>> No.23496267

>>23496233
That's pretty young to read such a violent book. I read American Psycho in Grade 12 and BM when I was like 21.

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>>23496233
Hey there partner. You can rape, kill, scalp, rob, and torture anyone you like. We only have one rule here: don't be racist to our black friend

>> No.23496630

>>23496285
he had a whole fucking rant about how black johnson was inferior

>> No.23496918

>>23496285
I think it was more like the murderous rapist scalphunter was just looking for an excuse to kill someone, the nigger stuff was just an excuse.
>the most horrible nigger

>> No.23497370

>>23496630
you mean the evil child rapist was also portrayed as a racist?

>>23496918
But he also made a point of saving black johnson with the dakotas (I know it was because their fates were tied together by the fortune teller).

The point is that, even though it's historically accurate with the racism, it still has a prominent anti-racist message. That's the thing about subversive art, it starts as subtle. The simpsons were "joking" when they would take jabs at conservatism in the 90's. Now they're overt. South Park was "joking" about all the gay jokes. Now Trey Parker is out of the closet. Sarah Silverman and all jews were "joking" about all their anti-christian jokes. Now they don't hide it. Its just odd how racism is the one line they can't cross in this book.

>> No.23497721

>>23497370
Blood meridian does not have a prominent anti racist message. You are a rightoid culture warrior who saw that there was a black man in the story and started seething. Sad!

>> No.23498044

>>23497721
>prominent

>> No.23499721

>>23496285
>t. van der Linde gang 1899

>> No.23499927

I don't care.

>> No.23499980

>>23496233
I read this recently after liking No Country for Old Men a lot. I came across a video essay about Blood Meridian and everyone talked about brutal and violent it was, but except for that one scene with the Indian child, there wasn't really anything crazy in there, certainly nothing worse than I've seen in other movies or books, but it's revered as this dark and unreadibly violent psychic assault for some reason.

>> No.23499999

>>23496233
Is it violent?

>> No.23501226

>>23499980
the kid dies raped by the judge in a latrine.

>> No.23501486

>>23499999
Checked
>>23501226
We don't actually know that. Everyone in that scene is referred to as "the man" so it could be the missing girl who is in the latrine all murdered up and the man who says "I wouldn't go in there" could be the man (kid).

>> No.23502395

>>23496233
I read the Road first.

>> No.23502503

>>23501226
What? That doesn't happen.

>> No.23502673

>>23501486
Your saying when the judge was waiting for the kid in the outhouse and embraced him nakedly, it meant that from then on the kid was going to become a child rapist?

>> No.23503029

>>23496285
In satan's eyes all men are equal.
equally shit